Morphological and molecular characterisation of Abyssoanthus nankaiensis, a new family, new genus and new species of deep-sea zoanthid (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia:Zoantharia) from a north-west Pacific methane cold seep

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-262

  Reimer, James D ^a,b   Sinniger, Frederic ^c,d   Fujiwara, Yoshihiro ^a   Hirano, Satoshi ^a   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COLD SEEP; CORAL; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; METHANE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; EPIZOANTHUS; ZOANTHARIA; ZOANTHIDAE; ZOANTHIDEA;

EID: 34347356467     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS06008     Document Type: Article

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